Holiday advertising
is down 8.7% from this time a year ago, according to the ad-tracking firmAce
Metrix. Ace Metrix
attributes this decline to the fact that Thanksgiving falls five
days later this year than it did last year.

New York City comptroller John
Liu is calling for Publicis and
Omnicom
to release the number of minorities and women they employ.
Liu says that since the New York City pension funds he manages
hold a combined $61 million stake in the two companies, the
information is important to him in deciding how he will vote as a
shareholder on the companies' proposed merger.